Ridiculous, Josh. >> Uh, good evening. >> Let's call this meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. We're going to start off with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the to
the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please join me in a moment of silent reflection. >> Thank you. All right. Sunshine Law Notice. In
accordance with the provisions of the Open Public Meetings Act, public meetings may be held in person or by means of communication equipment to include streaming services and other online meeting platforms. This meeting is being held via Zoom platform only broadcast from Burough Hall, 748 River
Road, Fair, New Jersey. Public participation for this regular council meeting of February 23rd, 2026 is available by call and phone number or through web conference Zoom. Members of the public will be on mute until it's time for questions or comments which will be announced. At that time, the public has the opportunity to question
or comment by phone or through Zoom by the raise hand button and will be called on at the appropriate time. Notice of this meeting was included in a schedule of meetings which was adopted by resolution number 2026-13 and sent to the Asbury Park Press and the Two River Times on January 12th,
2026, posted on the Burough website, the Bolton board and municipal building and has remained continuously posted as required under the statute. With adequate notice having been given, the burough clerk is directed to include this statement in the minutes of this meeting. Uh Allison, may I please have a
roll call for Snow Haven? Council members Cole >> here. >> Deelli I Griffin I see you >> sorry here. >> Okay >> here. >> Cotch >> here.
>> Mki >> here. >> Olson >> here. We have administrator York, finance director Britain, Chief McGovern, Attorneys Soil and Malamment, DPW Director Nick Pinsky, DJ Breenidge, parks and rec director, and engineer
Gardella. >> Great. Thank you, Allison. Uh, right into public comment on agenda items only. Please state your name and address for the record. Please observe a time limit of three minutes. Is there anyone on the deis that has a public comment on agenda items only?
No. Is there anyone in the public? Allison, >> we have three attendees, but no hands up. >> Thank you. Moving along. Approval of minutes. February 11th, 2026 regular meeting. Do I have a motion to approve? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Allison, may I please have a roll call?
>> Council members Cole, >> yes. Diselli, >> yes. >> Yes. >> Griffin, >> yes. >> Botch, >> yes. >> Miy, >> yes. >> Olson, >> yes. >> Thank you. Thank you. Uh, does anyone
have any old business to discuss? Thank you. Next up, new business, our consent agenda, resolutions 2026- 060 through 2026-071. Before I ask for a motion, does anyone want to separate anything on the consent agenda?
No. Does anyone have anything they want to discuss on the consent agenda? >> Mayor, uh, it's Kevin. Just a question. I think on 070. >> Yep. >> And um the question that I have is uh is
is um basic I guess in nature is how should I be how do we think about what this means? These are are these unforeseen or foreseen expenses because we don't have a budget yet. >> It's because we don't have a budget.
NY's on some weird, but we're working on a temporary budget >> and some things that are coming up that we have to >> do a little switcheroo or add a little money to cover. >> Nancy, since you're online, can you just give a quick overview just so it's on the record to uh Councilman Griffin um
regarding the um the temporary budget? >> I sure can. Uh, Councilman Griffin, so we are limited to a um, in the beginning of the year, we can only take a certain percentage for a temporary budget, but as the year goes on, prior to the budget being introduced and adopted, we need
more funds. So, we have to keep adding funds to the different accounts for their expenditures or payroll or whatever may come up. So, we don't like to let the different accounts get below a certain level because we cannot process purchase orders if there's no
funds available. So, this is just it something we do every year. You'll usually see it almost every meeting because I I don't like to do all of them. I just do them as they're needed. Does that help answer the question for you? >> It does. Thank you, Nancy. Yeah, appreciate that. Makes sense. And and
councilman just to just to add one thing uh we had a the finance committee um had a meeting uh just the council leaison Nancy and I had a meeting the other day to go over the um the budget. Uh we will have a full meeting with our full finance committee uh upcoming. We have a
date scheduled um and then uh budget have introduction and all of that. So uh just to give you an idea we are working on it and uh we are within the timelines they're allowed by DCA. >> Great. Anyone else before I ask for a motion?
Anyone have a motion to approve? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Allison, may I please have a roll call? >> Council members Cole, >> yes. >> Deelli, >> yes. >> Griffin, >> yes. >> H, >> yes. >> MKI, >> yes.
>> Olson, >> yes. >> Thank you. Next up is department reports, January 2026, Municipal Court. Do I have a motion to accept? Motion to accept. >> Have a second. >> Second. >> All in favor?
>> I I. >> Anyone opposed? >> All right, we're going to move to the good of the burrow. You're going to stand and identify yourself, please, by clearly stating your name and address for the record. You use the raise hand button. Please observe a time limit of 3 minutes. Before I ask anyone up on the
deis, I just want to give a huge thank you to um our our entire staff as well as all of our volunteers. um you know, police department, fire, you know, emergency services, EMS, um and the DPW has just absolutely done a
bangup job. Um you know, just working around the clock to get our burrow, uh back up and running. And uh I speak on behalf of I think the entire council. I know the ent the entire Burough Fair Haven and in uh you know, sending our
appreciation to all the hard work that you guys have all done. Thank you very much. I'd like to add to that to have the record reflect how bad the snow is. Uh, one of the DPW plows got stuck in front of my house. It was so bad they had to have the front loader come and and pull it out. The snow was was so
deep the plow couldn't even get through. >> Uh, anyone up on the day with a good of the burrow? >> Um, I do. So, tomorrow the burrow is going to sell our $17 million competitive bond deal. Um it looks like
it's um a good favorable market to be selling in. Uh bids are due at 11. We should know at 11:01 what the yield is. But um other deals, other transactions similar to Fair Haven. Kennallorth did a deal last week. Very favorable rates,
lots of good demand. Um so I think the timing has been great. Hats off to administrator York and the CFO um Britain uh and the rest of the the finance team. >> Right. And and and just to um reinforce,
we were uh provided again with a double A+ rating. Is that correct? >> That's correct. >> Fantastic job. Uh anyone else? >> I'm just seconding what you said, Josh. Thank you for everyone who's out there. Also, be a good neighbor program is in
full effect. >> Um, thank you to all the middle school students who were out helping the seniors. Um, this is a lot. My daughter is a little bit regretting her choice this year, but you know, it it really helps. There are some really people who are really appreciating them being out
there. So, thank you to everyone part of that program. >> Thank you. >> Uh, if anyone else has anything, Allison, anyone go to the burrow? >> No, no one has their hand up. Great. >> I just have one announcement to make
real quick just to remind everybody. Uh we sent a reminder out today and we'll send a reminder out tomorrow as well. Uh trash pickup is going to be moved to Wednesday for the entire town. Um the reason we're doing it is uh to give the DPW a little bit more time to get the roads cleared and with the trash cans
not on the road allows them to plow a little bit easier. Plus it also gives the residents a little more extra time too to shovel out their walkways, driveways and such so they can get their trash cans out to the curb as well. Just reminder the entire town trash pickup will be on Wednesday and we'll send a reminder out tomorrow and I'll probably
send another reminder out uh scheduled for uh Wednesday as well. >> Great. >> Chris, can I thank I want to thank Chris and the administration for getting a lot of information out about this storm and being update updating the community. Thank you. And Chris, I thought I mentioned um we do have the Habitat for
Humanity ribbon cutting. I think now it's rescheduled for March >> 4th. Believe it's March 4th. Let me just take a look real quick. Uh yes, >> let people know. >> Yes, the uh Habitat um humanity house, the house on Hendrickson place 101 and 103 Hendrickson where ribbit cutting um
at 9:00 a.m. the governing body will be there. Um you know, the person who was um won the lottery to get the house uh the lottery pick will be there. I think it'd be great to have the community there to welcome her to the neighborhood and it's a really nice endeavor on behalf of all the partners that were involved in it. So 9:00 a.m. at the
house 103101 Hendrickson March 4th. >> Thank you. Our next council meeting is Monday, March 9th. And uh Kevin and Christina's good luck continues. That is the fastest council meeting that I have on record. >> Yes.
>> About 11 minutes. And we're going to >> Mayor, can I add something? Mayor. >> Oh, there it he go ahead, Chief. You're on mute. You're on mute, Chief. Chief, you're on mute. >> There you go. Yeah, I couldn't get my microphone to work before. Uh, no, I
just wanted to say, you know, Nick, I think Nick's still on. They did a really great job. Um, uh, last night they were here. Today, I was out all day and, u compared to other towns were in pretty good shape. Like I said, at one point, our roads look better than the county roads. Uh, right now the county roads
are pretty clear. Most of our roads are clear. A little side roads have some stuff, but tomorrow's supposed to warm up a little bit. So, I think uh that was some planning tomorrow. They did a really good job for as much uh snow as out there. And we got really lucky because the wind never really picked up that much. Yeah. >> So, we had no power outages reported. Uh
only a few branches down, nothing crazy at all. Uh no large trees or anything. So, we really weathered this pretty well. The weather. >> Mayor, just one more announcement, too. I hate to prolong this meeting if I don't have to. Um tomorrow, Burough Hall is going to be uh closed. We'll be
working remote again um just to allow DPW more time to clear the area. Every employee will be uh working from 8:00 to 4:00 will be available via email and we also have the phones transferred so Betty will still be answering any phone calls that come in. So business as usual but just not in the building. Uh library
is closed on Wednesday. We're going to have delayed opening. We will open at 10:30 in the morning. Uh library will also be opening at 10:30 as well on Wednesday. So uh we send alerts out about that as well. But just so uh for anybody watching the meeting tonight. So we are still available. We're still working. Again, any questions any
residents have, you know, please send me an email. Um, anyway, I can help you. Um, there. >> Beautiful. >> Do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? I. >> Anyone opposed?
Good night, Snow Haven. >> Good night, everyone. >> Good night, everybody. Bye. >> Thank you.